[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H3954]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TELLING THE AMERICAN COVID-19 STORY

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Madam Speaker, I rise to applaud two legislative 
initiatives that passed this week. One in particular was the COVID-19 
American History Project Act.
  With over almost a million Americans who died from COVID-19, the 
historic stories, the stories of tragedy and joy of the many 
hardworking medical professionals, like those in my particular 
congressional district, like Dr. Peter Hotez, who discovered an 
unbelievable vaccine that is now being used in developing nations, Dr. 
Joseph Varon, Dr. Joe Gathe, and many, many others; hospitals far and 
wide; nurses and medical professionals, who had to take care of people 
who were lying in hospital hallways; and families who lost one and two 
and three and four. We must tell the COVID-19 story.
  It is an American story. We must tell of the heroes. We must tell of 
those we lost. We must say thank you.
  But one thing we must do, as the chair of the bipartisan COVID-19 
Task Force, we must never, never repeat this again. We must be 
prepared, and we should be ready to save lives. There is nothing wrong 
with testing and vaccinating.

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